Release Notes#

Changes for v3.2.3 (2023-09-09)#

  • test.py: use valid values for jsonargs. Fixes #172

  • Allow editing toml in place (#171)

  • Documentation improvements

Changes for v3.2.2 (2023-04-22)#

  • Allow XML documents to be streamed with –xml-item-depth

Changes for v3.2.1 (2023-04-04)#

  • Relax tomlkit dependency version range to preserve Python 3.6 compatibility (#165)

Changes for v3.2.0 (2023-04-03)#

  • Use tomlkit instead of toml

  • Add security policy

  • Documentation and release infrastructure improvements

Changes for v3.1.1 (2023-02-21)#

  • Handle TOML datetimes. Fixes #160

  • Test and documentation improvements

Changes for v3.1.0 (2022-07-24)#

  • Use configurable output grammar, compatible with YAML 1.1

Changes for v3.0.2 (2022-07-05)#

  • Expand merge keys (https://yaml.org/type/merge.html). This is a YAML 1.1 specific behavior, but will be accommodated in yq due to its widespread use and low likelihood of accidental invocation.

Changes for v3.0.1 (2022-07-04)#

  • yq now uses the YAML 1.2 grammar when parsing and rendering YAML documents. This means bare literals like “on”, “no”, and “12:34:56” are interpreted as strings. (Fix interrupted release)

Changes for v3.0.0 (2022-07-04)#

  • yq now uses the YAML 1.2 grammar when parsing and rendering YAML documents. This means bare literals like “on”, “no”, and “12:34:56” are interpreted as strings.

Changes for v2.14.0 (2022-02-20)#

  • Support binary and set tags. Fixes #140

Changes for v2.13.0 (2021-12-02)#

  • Armor against entity expansion attacks

  • Improve YAML loading performance by using CSafeLoader where available

  • Require PyYAML 5.3.1 or newer

  • Test and release infrastructure improvements

Changes for v2.12.2 (2021-06-13)#

  • Handle -n correctly

Changes for v2.12.1 (2021-06-13)#

  • Do not close fds on child process

Changes for v2.12.0 (2021-02-05)#

  • Add TOML support and the tomlq CLI utility to access it

  • Drop Python 2.7 support

Changes for v2.11.1 (2020-09-26)#

Parse correctly when empty string is passed as jq_filter

Changes for v2.11.0 (2020-09-03)#

  • Better handling of jq_filter and files arguments (#102)

  • Create main.py (#82)

Changes for v2.10.1 (2020-05-11)#

  • Add support for xmltodict force_list definition for xq CLI (#95)

  • Support explicit doc markers (#93)

  • Ensure proper ordering of help messages (#90)

Changes for v2.10.0 (2019-12-23)#

  • Add support for in-place editing (yq -yi)

  • Add argcomplete integration

  • Docs: Migrate from RTD to gh-pages

Changes for v2.9.2 (2019-11-04)#

  • Fix interrupted release

Changes for v2.9.1 (2019-11-04)#

  • Fix documentation build

Changes for v2.9.0 (2019-11-04)#

  • Add -Y/–yaml-roundtrip for preserving YAML styles and tags

Changes for v2.8.1 (2019-10-28)#

  • Filter out -C and separate commingled yq and jq short options

Changes for v2.8.0 (2019-10-25)#

  • Set default block sequence indentation to 2 spaces, –indentless for 0

  • Make main body of yq callable as a library function

  • Test and release infrastructure updates

Changes for v2.7.2 (2019-01-09)#

  • Support options introduced in jq 1.6. Fixes #46

  • xq: Re-raise if exception is unrecognized

Changes for v2.7.1 (2018-11-05)#

  • xq: Introduce –xml-dtd and –xml-root. Fixes #37.

  • TOML support is optional and experimental

Changes for v2.7.0 (2018-08-04)#

  • TOML support with the tq executable entry point.

  • Disallow argparse abbreviated options. Fixes #38 on Python 3.5+.

  • Now available in Homebrew as python-yq.

Changes for v2.6.0 (2018-04-28)#

  • Packaging: Replace scripts with entry-points

  • Packaging: Package the license file

Changes for v2.5.0 (2018-04-02)#

  • Parse unrecognized tags instead of dropping them. Fixes #23

Changes for v2.4.1 (2018-02-13)#

  • Ignore unrecognized YAML tags instead of crashing

  • Explicitly disable XML entity expansion and mention in docs

  • xq -x: Raise understandable error on non-dict conversion failure

Changes for v2.4.0 (2018-02-08)#

  • Support XML parsing with xmltodict

Changes for v2.3.7 (2018-02-07)#

  • Fix for the –from-file/-f argument: Re-route jq_filter to files when using –from-file. Fixes #19.

Changes for v2.3.6 (2018-01-29)#

  • Parse and pass multiple positional-consuming jq args

Changes for v2.3.5 (2018-01-29)#

  • Support jq arguments that consume subsequent positionals (such as –arg k v) (#16).

Changes for v2.3.4 (2017-12-26)#

  • Support bare YAML dates and times. Fixes #10

Changes for v2.3.3 (2017-09-30)#

  • Avoid buffering all input docs in memory with no -y

  • End all json.dump output with newlines. Close all input streams. Fixes #8. Thanks to @bubbleattic for reporting.

Changes for v2.3.2 (2017-09-25)#

  • Fix test suite on Python 3

Changes for v2.3.1 (2017-09-25)#

  • Add support for multiple yaml files in arguments. Thanks to @bubbleattic (PR #7)

Changes for v2.3.0 (2017-08-27)#

  • Handle multi-document streams. Fixes #6

  • Report version via yq –version

Changes for v2.2.0 (2017-07-07)#

  • Stringify datetimes loaded from YAML. Fixes #5

Changes for v2.1.2 (2017-06-27)#

  • Fix ResourceWarning: unclosed file

  • Internal: Make usage of loader argument consistent

  • Documentation improvements

Changes for v2.1.1 (2017-05-02)#

  • Fix release script. Release is identical to v2.1.0.

Changes for v2.1.0 (2017-05-02)#

  • yq now supports emitting YAML (round-trip YAML support) using “yq -y”. Fixes #2.

  • Key order is now preserved in mappings/objects/dictionaries.

  • Passing input files by filename as an argument is now supported (in addition to providing data on standard input).

Changes for v2.0.2 (2017-01-16)#

  • Test and documentation improvements

Changes for v2.0.1 (2017-01-14)#

  • Fix description in setup.py

Changes for v2.0.0 (2017-01-14)#

  • Begin 2.0.0 release series. This package’s release series available on PyPI begins with version 2.0.0. Versions of yq prior to 2.0.0 are distributed by https://github.com/abesto/yq and are not related to this package. No guarantees of compatibility are made between abesto/yq and kislyuk/yq. This package follows the Semantic   Versioning 2.0.0 <http://semver.org/>_ standard. To ensure proper operation, declare dependency version ranges according to SemVer. See the Readme for more information.